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WWW Birthday – A SPN Exclusive Article

The 21st birthday of the World Wide Web is on December 25, 2011. This ‘coming of age’ WWW birthday marks the maturity of the first generation that was born with the Web and has always known it as an ordinary tool of life. This immeasurable gift to the world was created by Tim Berners-Lee (Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee) while working for a physics research center in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, approved Berners-Lee’s request to work on a system which would facilitate collaboration among researchers via the Internet. “I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn’t exist,” said Berners-Lee in a 2009 interview with the BBC.

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Google Celebrates Art Clokey’s Birthday

Not many people will recognize the name Art Clokey. But a lot more people will recognize the green clay animated character Gumby that he created. Art Clokey was the pioneer of stop motion clay animation , bringing to life Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared on the American kid’s show Howdy Doody. Art Clokey died last year, but to celebrate what would have been Clokey’s 90th birthday yesterday, Google’s home page featured the tribute doodle you see pictured. The initial image shows a toy block and 5 balls of colored clay representing the letters in GOOGLE

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